A year ago, Google held a fancy venue in a New York museum to announce the next grand release of Google Earth. A complete re-write of the underlying application which finally unified the Google Maps … [Read more...]

Last night Google released a new version of the desktop version of Google Earth Pro version 7.3.1 (which is free despite the confusing "Pro" name). You can download this at the download page found … [Read more...]

Although this blog has stopped regular blog postings, Google Earth still has a legacy of amazing stories and content. This post summarizes some of the most popular content found by our readers during … [Read more...]

This is a post I have been reluctant to write. I started this blog 12 years ago to bring news and share enthusiasm about one of the best software applications, and datasets, I have ever seen. Still to … [Read more...]

Went to check the Google Earth home page ahead of the press announcement this morning. Turns out there is a new home page which announces right at the top "Launch Earth for Chrome" with a big title … [Read more...]

As was mentioned last week by dozens of media outlets, Google sent out press invitations to an event for April 18th to roll out a "brand new Google Earth" experience. I will be attending and will … [Read more...]

Thank you to GEB reader André for letting us know that Google has just updated Google Earth to version 7.1.8.3036. It is a minor bugfix update but does indicate Google's continued dedication to Google … [Read more...]

Google has released a free new version of Google Earth on a totally different computing platform: Virtual Reality (VR). Google imaginatively calls it Google Earth VR. Specifically, for now, this … [Read more...]

The Google Earth weather layers "Conditions and Forecast" and "Ocean Observations" have been broken for some time. We did a post on it in July this year, but at that time it had already been broken … [Read more...]

Google has released an update to Google Earth and Google Earth Pro. This is a bugfix / maintenance update with no new features. Having said that, it does fix some of the worst bugs, including crashes … [Read more...]

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